PlaceShapers' chair vows to battle cuts
The new chair of the national group that champions community-based housing associations has vowed to battle against cuts that damage services to tenants.
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6509510
New PlaceShapers' chair wants to maintain quality
The new chair of a group of community-based housing associations, which promote good practice, wants to minimise the effects of the recession on organisations' staff and tenants.
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6509403
Local solutions
Barbara Thorndick suggests that smarter thinking, not more government directives, would be the best response to the Pilkington family case...
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6507256
Back to basics
Don't let talk of money cloud the real value in what we do, by Barbara Thorndick.
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6506680
Female touch
Barbara Thorndick writes about how tackling the gender gap at the top of organisations makes good business sense.
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6506188
Genuine choice doesn't come cheap
Genuine choice doesn't come cheap, writes Barbara Thorndick, but it's absolutely worth it......
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6505405
Associations to set criteria for their own inspections
TSA chief executive Peter Marsh told the PlaceShapers group of housing association leaders in London yesterday that he wanted to change the way housing providers are judged.
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6504355
Let's get off the gravy train
It would be a sign of ethical leadership if people who earn more than £40,000 took a reduced pay rise, writes Barbara Thorndick in Inside Housing.
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6503406
We are the good guys
Barbara Thorndick writes in Inside Housing about how housing assocaitions need to improve their reputation among MPs......
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6502257
MPs frustrated by 'dreadful' housing associations
Kate Murry writes an article on the PlaceShapers research in to MPs views and how many had good things to say about the associations signed up to the PlaceShapers agenda, which stresses a community and resident focus.
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6502212#comments
How the mighty have fallen
Barbara Thorndick considers the mistakes of the boom years in Inside Housing.......
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6501697
Because we're worth it - Inside Housing
Barbara Thorndick explains how Housing Associations are innovative and cost-effective to the public purse..............
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6501017
Shaping up - Roof magazine
Barbara Thorndick explains why she set up the PlaceShapers Group.
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Big is not better - Inside Housing Feature
Barbara Thorndick tells Kate Murray it's time to tell the housing association big boys that they aren't the be-all and end-all.
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Mergers don't always deliver procurement savings - Inside Housing article
Mergers can prevent housing associations from making procurement savings....
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=1449787
Collective departure - Inside Housing article
When West Kent Housing Association's Barbara Thorndick decided to write to a few of her fellow chief executives last year outlining her stand against the 'urge to merge', she was astonished by the response.........
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6500064
Chief executive slates the urge to merge - Inside Housing article
Medium-sized housing associations should think of their communities and resist the urge to merge, a chief executive claimed this week.
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=1449563
Associations urged to turn on the charm - Inside Housing article
Housing associations should embark on a 'charm offensive' after receiving cross-party...
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=1450023
The house masters - Guardian article
They are billion-pound players in Gordon Brown's grand home-building strategy, but are housing associations losing touch with their founding values? By Peter Hetherington
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/dec/05/guardiansocietysupplement.housing